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Vol. XVIII. N. 



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BkNKI'AL TCIK. 



The President of the New York Zoological 

 Society deeply regrets to announce the death of 

 Mr. Samuel Thome on Sunday. July i. 191.5, 

 at .Millhrook, New York. 



.Mr. Thorne was one of the early members 

 of our Board, and had been a member of the 

 Executive Committee since 1902, and Vice- 

 President of the Society since 1909. He al- 

 ways was devoted to the interests of the Society, 

 and contributed most generously to its general 

 work, and jiarticularly to the development of 

 the Zoological Park. 



THE BEAVER OF THE ADIRONDACKS. 



The successful restoration of the beaver to 

 the Adirondacks is a permanent memorial to 

 the late Harry V'. Radford, of New York, who 

 was murdered b_v Eskimo hunters, about two 

 years ago, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. 



The restored beavers have so completely pos- 

 sessed many portions of the Adirondack wil- 

 derness that to the owners of a few camps in 

 that region, they have become a menace. In the 

 cutting of trees Castor canadensis is no respect- 

 or of persons, and occasionally he commits the 

 tactical error of cutting a one-hundred doU.ir 

 shade tree in front of a ten-thousand doll.ir 

 "can)))" when a two-dollar tree in a spot of no 

 esthetic v/ilue ought to be "just as good." 



Last year certain gentlemen were so peeved 

 by the activities of neighboring beavers that 

 thev even went to law about it, and at the end 



of the first round secured against the State a 

 verdict of .$1,900 for damages. The case has 

 been appealed, by the State, and the cud is not 

 yet, and we opine that it may be difficult to 

 prove so much damages from beaver causes. 



It is natural for an Adirondack man to go 

 .around with ;i chip on his shoulder, daring any 

 public beaver to knock it off. Naturally the 

 Adirondack trapj)ers would welcome an open 

 season in Harry Radfords beavers; but we hope 

 that no such season ever will be granted, in our 

 day. 



The way out of any nal beaver difficulty that 

 might arise is jjlain, and easy to follow. In 

 our very excellent code of State game laws. Sec- 

 tion No. 158 expressly provides that whenever 

 wild birds or quadrupeds in any locality "be- 

 come destructive to public or private propertj'," 

 the state conservation commissioner may issue 

 to a state game warden, or even to a private 

 individual. ' a permit to take such species" and 

 dispose of them as the commissioner may direct; 

 and the permit shall expire three months .after 

 its date. 



It is therefore desirable that all owners of 

 property in the Adirondacks should know this 

 law, and in times of beaver peril they should 

 apply to Conservation Commissioner Pratt for 

 the measure of relief th.it the law wisely af- 

 fords. 



The beaver was restored to the Adirondacks 

 nine years ago, at the expense of the State, In- 

 the liberation of about 25 individuals. Now it 

 is estimated that the number of beavers in the 

 Adirondack wilderness is not far from 3,500. 



\V. T. H. 



BIRD KII.I.IXG STOPPED IX THE 

 DUTCH EAST INDIES. 



All Spe( ies Save Three Protected nv Ricio 



Embargo Act. 



[From the Xew Yorli .Sun.) 



X'otwithstanding the horrors of war at her 

 very doors and the burden of caring for 300.000 

 helpless Belgian refugees, Holland gall.mtly 

 has gone to the rescue of the bird s])ecies of 

 her East Indi.in possessions that were being 

 killed and sold for millinery purposes. It ap- 

 jnars that throughout the whole of her vast 

 isl.md empire in the -Malay Archipelago, 3,000 

 miles long by 1,000 miles wide, all bird speci's 

 save three are now absolutely ))rotected against 

 the feather trade, with a prob.ability th.it even- 

 tually no exceptions will be made. 



